> On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Larry Kollar wrote:
>
> > Robert Sievers wrote:
> >
> > Make it a user-selectable item (put it in AbiWord.Profile?). I don't
> > have a Windows box, have no intention of using one, and have no
> > personal need to accommodate Windows. Others *do* have this need.
>
> Because I come from a DOS/Windows background, I *would* like an automatic
> extension, even in Unix. It's an easy way for me to keep track of word
> processing docs, spreadsheets, etc. in the same subdirectory.
I'd vote for this being a user-selectable item that's saved between
sessions. That way, people who want it on can keep it on, and people who
want it off can keep it off.
> > Since AbiWord is smart enough to detect its own files, can the Windows
> > version open files with *no* extension and add it on Save?
>
> Actually, I've had a few problems with this: AbiWord would open its own
> documents as text files, i.e. displaying all of the XML codes as text in
> the documents. I have v0.7.1 installed for both Windows and Linux, and
> don't remember the specifics of the problem. I'll try to see if I can
> reproduce it in the next few days and find out more information.
I have this problem too with the BeOS version (using 0.7.1) -- I had no
knowledge of the .abw extension until I read this very discussion, so I
just saved my document as "Novel Notes", and when I opened it up again I
got a whole bunch of XML. I'll try using the .abw extension from now on.
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Brent P. Newhall
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